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...York's LaGuardia Field, striking pilots kept tabs from an automobile parked near the runway; but a picket line surrounded maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...
...week's end some of George's strength began to wane. Leaders of the A.F.L. trolley union, who had respected his picket lines for 18 days, sent their men back to the streetcars and buses. The coal truckers said to hell with George-and 384 of the Triangle's buildings got a full head of steam again...
...Stayed away from the wedding of Henry Wallace's pretty daughter, Jean (see MILESTONES). Mr. Truman said he never went to these affairs. Mrs. Truman went, joining Mr. & Mrs. Wallace, Claude Pepper and others in crossing a picket line around the Wardman Park Hotel, where service employes were on strike...
...strikers were demanding not higher pay, as the Duke thought, but union recognition ot their Union of General and Municipal Workers. Recalling the recent triumph of organized labor at Buckingham Palace (TIME, June 3), one banner in the Savoy Hotel's picket line proclaimed: "What's good enough for the royal household should be good enough for the Savoy...
...A.F.L. seamen refused to go through C.I.O. seamen picket lines...